4 Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)
Recommended for: people with a poetry tag
5 My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946)
Recommended for: people who have been told they have an old soul
6 3 Women (Altman, 1977)
Recommended for: the witchy wlw Lana Del Rey fans
7 Sorcerer (Friedkin, 1977)
Recommended for: Mad Max fans
8 The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)
Recommended for: sad girl Christmas!
9 Harold and Maude (Ashby, 1971)
Recommended for: Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies fans
10 A Zed & Two Noughts (Greenaway, 1985)
Recommended for: Bryan Fuller's Hannibal fans
As before, links go to my original Letterboxd “review” (comment), and if you click the poster or title there you’ll be taken to the short synopsis, cast & crew, wide header image for some vibes, etc.
And then the next ten too why not, it was a Good Year in Watching:
12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957)
After Hours (Scorsese, 1985)
Lady Vengeance (Chan-wook, 2005)
The French Connection (Friedkin, 1971)
A New Leaf (May, 1971)
Leave Her To Heaven (Stahl, 1945)
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Ōshima, 1983)
The Lion In Winter (Harvey, 1968)
Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Almodóvar, 1988)
Fail Safe (Lumet, 1964)
A Zed & Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway, 1985) X “Moments In Love” (Art Of Noise, 1985)
Peter Greenaway found his cinematographer muse in Sacha Vierny and the result is painterly, baroque, and odd but also has an elegant beauty, much like the Art Of Noise classic “Moments In Love,” released the same year. The film follows twin Zoologists and Greenaway uses them to meditate on birth, death, decay, amputees, grief, David Attenborough, Flemish painters, etc, and, though a bit incomprehensible, the resulting rich colors, strange humor, and tawdry eroticism make it a totally unique artistic achievement.